# Gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems/153293>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 14, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems/153293 "2008-11-14T13:56:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kode.poit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kode.poit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kode.poit)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems/153293/1 "2008-11-14T13:56:29Z")

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After updating to rubygems 1.3 I started getting these warnings when  
running “rake gems:update” :

WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and  
/usr/bin aren’t both writable.  
WARNING: You don’t have /Users/myhome/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,  
gem executables will not run.

It looks like the gems unpack fine but I found this weird.

Mac OS X 10.5.5  
gem 1.3.0  
edge rails

Thanks.  
Mike

+3

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**Author:** ![kode.poit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kode.poit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kode.poit)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems/153293/2 "2008-11-14T14:01:47Z")

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Did you try to run it as root?

sudo rake…

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**Author:** ![kode.poit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kode.poit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kode.poit)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems/153293/3 "2008-11-14T15:25:46Z")

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are you trying to update your installed gems? do “sudo gem update”